BC-NH--New Hampshire News Digest, NH

Thursday

Nov 22, 2012 at 2:15 PM

New Hampshire at 2 p.m.

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CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING

CONCORD — Pat Laplante barely had time to unpack from her latest cross-border shopping trip before hopping on another bus. A week after hitting the outlets in North Conway, she was heading from her home in Canada to northern Maine in search of Black Friday deals. New Hampshire has long been a shopping destination because it has no sales tax, but there's a new twist this holiday shopping season: Since June, Canadian visitors shopping here have been able to return home with more duty-free goods thanks to increases in the duty-free allowances. By Holly Ramer.

HIGHWAY SAFETY CAMPAIGN

CONCORD — New Hampshire State Police are launching a campaign to help reduce holiday highway fatalities by stepping up police presence. New Hampshire troopers are teaming with their colleagues in the other five New England states to coordinate saturation patrols that make motorists pay attention to their speed as they drive travelling through several states to go skiing or visit friends and relatives.

ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:

— DARTMOUTH-NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH — Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have joined a partnership aimed at promoting the health of Native Americans across the country and developing leaders in the Native American community.

— TECHNOLOGY DEGREES — New Hampshire's community colleges and four-year public campuses are continuing their work to turn out more high-tech graduates.

— CEMETERY VANDALISM — Dozens of headstones have been toppled or broken at a New Hampshire cemetery.

— BROKAW AWARD — A living history museum in Massachusetts is preparing to honor journalist and former TV news anchor Tom Brokaw with a lifetime achievement award.

— VETERANS PARADE-VIGIL — A New Hampshire community is remembering a veteran who was killed in a Texas parade accident last week.

— HOUSE FIRE-MANCHESTER — A fire has destroyed a home in Manchester, N.H., and left two pets dead.

— PEDESTRIAN STRUCK — Police in Hudson, N.H., say a pedestrian has been hospitalized with serious injuries after he was struck by a station wagon while crossing the street.

— GOVERNOR-THANKSGIVING — New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is spending part of his Thanksgiving serving up meals to the needy.